He said: ‘It happened about 6 years ago. My wife had been pushing me to use Instagram for while, saying it would be great for promoting my illustrations and comics I’ve been doing in my spare time besides my work as a graphic designer.

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‘And just after lunchtime I wanted to experiment a bit with the app, try out the filters and such. But since I was at the office I didn’t really have anything fun or interesting to photograph.

‘I then noticed I still had a banana left from lunch and figured it would make a fun picture if I just drew a little happy face on it.’

He continued: ‘Discovering how pleasant it actually is to draw on a banana – there is just something about how smooth the ballpoint pen flows on the structure of the banana peel – I made another fruitdoodle, as I like to call them, the next day. One with a grumpy face, for balance’s sake.

‘And after that I just kinda challenged myself to see what else I could come up with to draw on a banana, and I never stopped since.’

With an Instagram following of more than 50,000, it’s not hard to see why Stephan’s followers just can’t look away from his incredible work.

In support of the recent Manchester tragedy, Stephan recreated the Manchester bee on a banana